This reminds me of the time I went to open an account with @Barclays and my husband (who was with me for the trip) got called ‘Dr Thomson’ and when he pointed to me (the customer) they still addressed their questions to him… 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

Nikki later updated her Twitter followers, confirming that Barclaycard had processed her card application after the “technical glitch”.

To follow up – I’ve spoken to @Barclaycard and they’ve kindly processed my application. I always thought it was a computer glitch, I never thought they were being deliberately sexist. I just thought it was an amusing technical error that others might appreciate

Barclaycard also confirmed their systems were “certainly not programmed” to not accept female doctors.

Hi Nikki. This shouldn’t happen, our systems are certainly not programmed to do that and we’ve had no other reports of this malfunction. Can I just ask you, did you change any details further through the application, or hit the ‘back’ button at any time during it? 1/2